Shoshana Mizrachi Farhi

Shoshana Mizrachi Farhi (1925-30 November 1947) was a Jewish woman who was the first civilian killed during the Palestinian Civil War of 1947-48.

Biography
Shoshana Mizrachi Farhi was born in 1925 in Mandatory Palestine in the United Kingdom, and in 1947 she was engaged to marry a man in Jerusalem. She set out from Netanya on a bus to her wedding in Jerusalem on 30 November 1947, but the bus was attacked by Arab militiamen who were hostile towards Jews after the declaration that Israel would become a new state. She was killed along with Hadassah Hospital pathologist Nehana Cohen and 3 others, and shortly after, the 25-year-old Moshe Goldman was killed on the Jaffa-Tel Aviv Highway by Arabs.